Ben Doller famous quotes

I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.
-- Ben Doller

#Writing #Thinking #Dread

The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness of one's position, privilege, and place, the lot one draws, and so on. It has made previously suspicious-seeming clichés seem more tolerable. Love may not be all you need, but it is certainly a necessity. My desire to survive has been exponentially magnified by the fact that there is someone intimately tangled up in me who would be left alone with the world.
-- Ben Doller

#Tangled #Desire #World

Me and my wife had somehow finally reached a moment in which our lives made sense, in which we were comfortable in certain material ways, and in that very moment we were faced with a medical situation that could only really be resolved with death or time. Suddenly we had become these people who didn't drink anything but kale, who ended many of our conversations with tears, and for whom no future was guaranteed. It was kind of funny.
-- Ben Doller

#People #Wife #Tears

Me and my wife were interested in avoiding style, in eliminating voice, in getting away from the poetry logics, textures, and propulsions that we normally employ in our writing. But we arrived at even this organically and separately.
-- Ben Doller

#Writing #Wife #Style

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.